Norbiton Industrial Area Redevelopment Maps

The maps below show an industrial area in the town of Norbiton, and planned future development of the site.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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Key features: Norbiton Industrial Area Redevelopment Maps

WhyThis is aMap — it asks you to describe how a place changed.

SoWe split the points intoOverview(the overall change to the place)andKey changes(what was added, removed, moved or kept).

Overview

1 point

Key changes

8 points

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Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response identifies the main transformation from factories to housing and the new river bridge, showing sound selection of key features at adequate length. Its main limitations are some vague or imprecise descriptions of layout changes, a confusing use of the word infrastructure, and occasional grammatical errors such as sentence fragments.

TA

Task Achievement

The response gives a clear overview of major change and covers relevant features such as the new bridge, housing replacing factories and new amenities, but several details are vague or loosely stated, including describing housing and facilities collectively as infrastructure, and the reported features are not always located precisely against the maps.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Progression is broadly clear with an overview and logical present-to-future comparisons, though cohesion devices such as 'interestingly' and 'it is also interesting to know' are mechanical and some comparisons, like the claim about infrastructure dominating the central part, are hard to follow.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

There is adequate range for a map comparison (replaced with, dominated by, stretch to, intended layout), but word choice is at times imprecise or inappropriate, as in 'a limited number of infrastructure', 'vicinity' and 'tremendous changes in infrastructure'.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of simple and complex structures is used with some accuracy, but errors are noticeable, including the fragment 'However, no bridge aiding workers to cross the river', faulty passive constructions and article problems, though meaning generally remains clear.

6.0

What to work on next

Describe specific location changes precisely (e.g. where shops, the medical centre, the school and the new roundabout are placed) and replace vague terms like infrastructure with the actual features being compared.

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